title: Role of the cottage nurse and laying out of the dead: BJN 100 years ago.
abstract: One hundred years ago the role of the nurse was not always clear and there were several types of nurses around using various titles. Some would be well trained and knowledgeable, others would barely have received any form of training and often worked from the experience they received working on the job. This often led, as it still does today, to confusion over what was the fundamental role of a nurse.
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing; D005655:Funeral Rites; D049673:History, 20th Century; D024802:Nurse's Role / Q000266:history*; D006113:United Kingdom